The Sánchez government continues the democratic deterioration started by Zapatero
Since Zapatero, socialists have not got many things right, if corrected. No transparency exists with Sánchez. Division of powers is breached; failure is covered up, success invented; they squander and leave us in debt; they slow down national and business economy with high taxes and energy costs; the middle class disappears; hunger queues grow; private property is violated with impunity; certainty is generally lacking; public-private cooperation is not put to good use; men are legally discriminated to favour women; young Spanish couples replace children with pets; debt financed pensions; propaganda is suffocating. They cover up school failure by allowing students to the next course without passing. Unemployment is camouflaged with layoffs. The official pandemic death toll is fiddled. Neither the Spanish Confederation of Employers’ Organisations nor Trade Unions represent small businesses or private workers, respectively, but lives well on its budget. Private universities’ level keeps dropping. Research is becoming disposable, is evaluated by metrics that promote mediocrity and productive roguishness with fraudulent promotion. The government pardons separatist criminals, treats the High Court like dirt, classifies applying the law as vengeance and revenges it when law is met. It confuses public utility with its own interest by appealing to harmony when promoting Spaniards’ confrontation and accusing those who do not cede of belonging to the extreme rightwing (totalitarian characteristics). Overseas relations are shameful: Morocco invades, humiliates and extorts us; busts of Columbus and Isabella I of Castille are pulled down in Colombia. No-one respects us. With no military power and our economical ruin, a government that breaks a country up can be considered a traitor. Zapatero defended narco-dictatorships and offended the USA. The government causes the “Delcy” scandal in Barajas and lets “Chicken Carvajal” claimed by the USA escape. US presidents scorn us. Anti-patriotic governments are internationally marginalised for being incomprehensible. Our image abroad harms Spanish firms’ overseas work and foreign investments here because governments are unpredictable. Our bad overseas image generates national misery. Every socialist vote is the hammer that breaks Spain.
For being non-specific, the evaluation to access university (EvAU) disorientates students who select Higher Secondary Education to take the easy route, get an inflated mark for their degree and then barely understand specific subjects from day one at university. I confirm this yearly. Secondary Education teachers prepare students for EvAU instead of teaching what they must. Alternative EvAU with no previous mark should be proposed to cover broad theme areas: Sciences, Humanities, Health. The number of public jobs should be limited by each regional government according to job demands because 80% of the cost is financed with taxes so the best students go to university. If the rest want to go, they should pay because it is not essential. In wealthy countries, students get in debt paying university. No-one appreciates what they are given. My suggestion does not imply going against equal opportunities, but limiting unmet hopes, frustrations and public spending. Deceived students think they will earn a living with a degree, but are fooled. In Spain, public degrees are becoming increasingly worthless because there are too many degree holders, the private initiative is blocked and offers few jobs due to high taxes. We need well-trained people to operate lathes, to be builders, plumbers, etc. Too many frustrated graduates live badly or emigrate. We import cheap goods (Spanish unemployment) and export expensive graduates for free. We spend what we do not have on thousands of illegal child minors from other cultures with no training plan.
Social psychology teaches the so-called simplification bias. It asks a simple question that is the equivalent of a complex one to know what the people being asked think. The Puig government supports separatists being pardoned (of course!) and practices separatism with a lent flag (subordinates of ERC; Republican Left of Catalonia). The law that demands Generalitat civil servants knowledge of Catalan betrays them. The equivalent question about the young supporting the government or not is asked to know their patriotism. Hence the EvAU question: what does being a patriot mean to you? If students take a positive patriotism view, they will not vote them, but will if it is negative. Servile organisers will know what/who to vote, and at what school each student studies. The Valencian government’s terminal teachers use EvAU as if it were a social experiment. Teachers and students have been used as guinea pigs for abuse against intimacy.
Post published in Las Provincias